Freshman Missouri Rep almost made it 3 months before introducing bill urging members to say "fiscal," not "physical"

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poo-Y’ALL-up

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Huh? Portland has a street named after Ethyl Acetate?

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Oh, you mean a pulpit? *flees*

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While we’re at it, penultimate doesn’t mean what most people seem to think it means.

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For a second there, my reading voice saw that as the correct pronunciation, EE-num-claw. Then I realized most out of state people would pronounce it eh-num-claw from the spelling… :frowning:

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As a transplant it took me a while to figure out how to pronounce half the shit around here.

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Correctly, like an Englishman. Of course, people from the OG Washington call it ‘Washie’.

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Just to piss off my friends and family, I invented a new pronunciation for that weird word. Poo-yuh-yup.

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What do you find most people think it means? Something other than the next-to-the-last thing?

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I’ve heard it used numerous times in the context of “the most ultimate” (as tautological as this is) rather than “next to last”.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s %^$@ brilliant!!!
That is literally the dumbest thing I’ve heard today.
Thanks for the LOL!

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Oh, man. Don’t get me started on the abuse of that word. :slight_smile:

It’s “literally” even worse than the abuse of ironic.

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Don’t forget one of his other grammar related songs

It’s always a good sign that whoever you’re talking to isn’t paying very much attention, when they say things like “I’m raping harder, better and faster than Eminem”

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Really? Let me apologize for all my ignorant American friends. (I have to assume it’s us, correct?)

OT: I’m repotting our 25+ year-old ficuses (what’s the plural of ficus?) after a root culling and trim. Do you what kind of fertilizer I should apply? And when?

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I don’t have any specific recommendations, sorry. :frowning:

25+ years old? Have you considered having your ficuses run for congress?

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U stem, isn’t it? The plural should be ficus if I remember my Latin classes correctly.

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Actually, my friend who teaches civics shows that exact episode. The students love it. I think it actually makes them think about voting and government a bit more.

As far as my ficuses, I played it by ear the last time and they ended up doing great. (They’re my step-plants, but I love them as if they’re my own.)

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Thanks. I was too lazy to look up. Learning Latin it’s on my bucket list, though.:relaxed:

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I’m quite successful with my project to forget everything related to Latin grammar : D

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